{"id":8591,"date":"2010-06-30T19:20:04","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T19:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/30\/ball-lightning-may-be-all-in-your-head\/"},"modified":"2010-06-30T19:20:04","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T19:20:04","slug":"ball-lightning-may-be-all-in-your-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/30\/ball-lightning-may-be-all-in-your-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Ball Lightning May Be All in Your Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2010\/05\/100514-science-ball-lightning-hallucinations-magnetic-fields\/'>Ball Lightning May Be All in Your Head<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<blockquote><p>Mysterious floating blobs of light known as ball lightning might simply be hallucinations caused by overstimulated brains, a new study suggests.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, the study isn&rsquo;t definitive and doesn&rsquo;t rule out the possibility that ball lightning can occur naturally:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&ldquo;While hallucinations could explain some cases, the effect of ball  lightning is yet feasible in both nature and the laboratory.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/06\/30\/ball-lightning-actua.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29\" target=\"_blank\"><em>BoingBoing<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ball Lightning May Be All in Your Head Mysterious floating blobs of light known as ball lightning might simply be hallucinations caused by overstimulated brains, a new study suggests. However, the study isn&rsquo;t definitive and doesn&rsquo;t rule out the possibility that ball lightning can occur naturally: &ldquo;While hallucinations could explain some cases, the effect of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/30\/ball-lightning-may-be-all-in-your-head\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ball Lightning May Be All in Your Head&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}